Wednesday, August 27, 2008

26-27.8.08 (Tue-Wed) - i am me

i am me
"My Declaration of Self-esteem"



In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me -
everything that comes out of me is authentically mine,
because I alone choose it - I own everything about me - my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
whether they be to others or to myself -
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears -
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by
so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts -
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know -
but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me -
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me - If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt
turned out to be unfitting, I can discard that which I feel is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded -
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me -
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me -
I am me &

I AM OKAY

by Virginia Satir
* Thank you Naza.
p/s - Biar diri tidak popular, asal kita punya pendirian, misi dan visi dalam hidup.
Always be grateful with what you have and what God has granted you with as God knows what is best for you. You do not have to be others in order to be happy. You just need to BE YOURSELF and learn to be better from time to time...!

6 comments:

me and i said...

Mcm familiar aje yea..he..he..true..everything u said is the truth and nothing but the truth.

domestic engineer said...

Ya la. I siap acknowledge your name lagi...he he. I've fallen in love with this poem since the first time I read it in yours. It's very meaningful.

wizcakes said...

Beautiful poem. It moves you to the core. Thanks for sharing Naza and ziela.

Unknown said...

:-) nice reflective words...
from afar i can tell, u r definitely you!

pp

domestic engineer said...
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domestic engineer said...

Alamak...got CCTV la! I'm scared...Thank you anyway, PP.:-)